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Journal of Virology, September 2001, p. 7872-7874, Vol. 75, No. 17
Department of Neurology, The Agnes Ginges
Center for Human Neurogenetics, Hadassah University Hospital,
Jerusalem, Israel
Received 25 January 2001/Accepted 18 May 2001
We show here that PrPC, the normal isoform of the prion
protein (PrPSc), could be retained by a
Cu2+-loaded resin through two different binding sites.
Contrarily, PrPSc was not retained at all by such resin.
This constitutes a new prion-specific property of PrPSc,
which in addition to protease resistance and
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.17.7872-7874.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Copper Binding to the PrP Isoforms: a Putative
Marker of Their Conformation and Function
-sheet content, may
result from its aberrant conformation.
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